What motivates people to organize communal living themselves? What ideals are behind it, how do they finance themselves, and how does life in a community work? Based on six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from the past 40 years, the documentary film "Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind" (The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of) sets out to find answers. Filmmakers Lotte Schreiber and Michael Rieper tell these six stories by staying very close to the protagonists.
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in...

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A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It sta...

The British architect based in Stockholm looks back on major projects of a long career inspired by E...

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria ...

A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, f...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...